A middle-aged woman returns to her childhood island to care for her mother and finds her conventional marriage tested by intense attraction to a monk.
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A middle-aged woman returns to her childhood island to care for her mother and finds her conventional marriage tested by intense attraction to a monk.
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Forty-two and married for half her life, Jessie Sullivan honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a good dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter. But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish the cause of her mother's increasingly strange behaviour, Jessie is drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows. Amid the seductive beauty of South Carolina salt marshes and tidal creeks, their encounters awa...
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Sexual content
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Protagonist pursues extramarital affair with a monk; sexual and spiritual longing is central.
Violence & gore
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Mother's act of self-violence; references to death and euthanasia.
Profanity
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No profanity present.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation present.
Religious content
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Benedictine monastery setting with monks, rituals, saints, and spiritual awakening themes.
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present.
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present.
Political content
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No political or ideological messaging present.
Self-harm / suicide
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Mother's self-harm and mental illness; euthanasia themes.
Abuse & suffering
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Infidelity, family trauma, mental illness, and guilt over past death.
Other
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